5 days old

3/2/14 11:10 am

Little Baby Carter is 5 days old today.  He is still on the ventilator but they have decreased some of the settings and he has maintained all of his vitals signs and breathing.  He has received 2 doses of Indocin and is getting the 3rd dose right now.  Dr. Berstein said that it sounds like the murmur is closing and he feels that his improved ventilator settings are also a sign of that.  They will be doing another cardiac echo in the morning to verify if it has closed.  He is getting a transfusion today because his platelets and hematocrit are a little low.

In other news Baby Carter opened his eyes today.  They turned off his phototherapy for a little while to adjust his nest and he opened them.  Now he has realized he is wearing a mask and keeps putting his hand up there trying to pull it off.  Daddy has had to re-adjust it 3 times already in the past hour.  Make that 4.